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Game Notes: Michigan

Game Notes: Michigan

The Indiana football program returns home for a date with No. 4/4 Michigan on Saturday (Oct. 8) at Noon. The Hoosiers will host Big Noon Kickoff for the first time in program history in the South End Zone plaza outside Memorial Stadium beginning at 10 a.m. and the game will air live on FOX.

INDIANA (3-2, 1-1 Big Ten) hosts No. 4/4 Michigan (5-0, 2-0 B1G)

Memorial Stadium

Saturday, Oct. 8 | Noon ET

TV: FOX  | RADIO: Indiana Hoosiers Sports Network

Setting the Scene

• Indiana (3-2, 1-1 B1G) returns home to host No. 4 Michigan (5-0, 2-0 B1G) with Big Noon Kickoff on campus for the Saturday, Oct. 8 matchup. Kickoff is set for Noon ET inside Memorial Stadium (52,656; Field Turf) on FOX.

• The Hoosiers are 10-60 all-time against the Wolverines, with the last meeting in Bloomington a 38-21 win for IU in 2020.

• Michigan starts a string of three of the next five opponents for the Hoosiers currently ranked among the top 10 in the AP and Coaches polls.

• The contest will mark the 109th Homecoming Game for the Hoosiers. Indiana owns a 45-57-6 record on Homecoming.

By The Numbers

3 - Cam Jones is just the third IU football student-athlete to be elected a three-time team captain.

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24 - Of Tom Allen's 63 career games as a head coach, 24 of those have been decided by seven of fewer points, including two of four games in 2022.

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54 - With 53 tackles through the first five games, Cam Jones

is off to the best defensive start since at least 2005. His efforts include four double-digit tackle games.

4.0 - With 4.0 sacks on the season, true freshman Dasan McCullough is No. 2 nationally among rookies.

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News & Notes

• Head coach Tom Allen is on pace to join a select group of coaches in Indiana history, as he is one victory away from 30-win mark.

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• Over the first four games, Cam Jones has piled up 54 tackles, the most by an IU defender in the first five games of the season since at least 2005.

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• Wide receiver Cam Camper is the eighth wideout (10 occurrences) with a pair of 10-catch games in a season and is just one shy of joining Whop Philyor (3; 2019) and Damarlo Belcher (3; 2010) atop that list.

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• Place kicker Charles Campbell continues to move up the career field goals made and scoring charts at IU, sitting among the top 10 in field goals made (33) and top 20 in career scoring (154).

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• Outside linebacker Dasan McCullough is tied for the lead among all FBS true freshmen in tackles for loss or no gain and is No. 2 in sacks per Pro Football Focus.

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• Running backs Shaun Shivers and Josh Henderson became the first pair of running backs with receiving touchdowns in the same game since 2001 when they each hauled in touchdown passes at Cincinnati.

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• Camper and D.J. Matthews Jr. (109 yards) each racked up 100-plus yards receiving against Illinois to become the first Indiana duo to reach the century mark in the same game since 2018.

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• With two sacks at Nebraska, Noah Pierre posted his first career multi-sack game and the second of the season for an IU defender (McCullough; Idaho).

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